>> ICR also rebuts arguments about the early history of the universe, by asking>> "How do you know? Were you there?" This argument implies that ANY inference>> about the past is suspect. In other words, drawing any inferences from the >> past is not valid. <snip>>> "We can't see the past so ..." is an argument heard often enough >to deserve an explicit, though simple, response: It is false." > <snip>

"Were you there?" also makes for dangerous apologetics. After all, I wasn't
there when Jesus rose from the dead. By the ICR's logic (or at least
something not too different from it), I have no valid reason for believing
that he did, no matter how strong the evidence.